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SARAH STOESZ | Staff Reporter Butler University plans to improve sidewalk drainage in the summer of 2015 to prevent flooding on campus after heavy rainfall. Campus was hit late last week and early this week with heavy rain, causing flooding in some areas. Atherton Union experienced flooding last Thursday, Assistant Chief of Police Bill Weber…

COLIN LIKAS | Editor-In-Chief It’s not uncommon to have men and women living in the same floor of a residence hall on Butler’s campus. However, Butler will get its first taste of co-educational, on-campus rooms this fall in Apartment Village. Co-educational, also known as co-ed, living descibes an area in which men and women can…

JULIANNE STRIBIAK | Staff Reporter Atherton Union will be without air conditioning for the next six to eight weeks. Rich Michal, executive director of facilities, said the 21-year-old cooling towers that sit south of Jordan Hall need to be replaced. “This winter was especially hard on everything,” Michal said. “So we decided now’s the time,…

MIRANDA MARITATO | Staff Reporter The College of Education will offer recreation and sports studies as a new minor starting in fall 2014. The minor is designed for students looking to engage in health, physical activity, recreation and sports outside of school studies said Mindy Welch associate professor of physical education. Welch is also the…

NATALIE SMITH | Asst. News Editor It’s 11 a.m. on a Tuesday. A group sits down with an agenda, ready to discuss, recommend and vote on one of Butler University’s most controversial topics—parking. This group of 15 faculty and staff members and two students is called the parking committee. “The committee meets to discuss issues…

KATIE GOODRICH | Asst. News Editor Butler University students have answers to important questions from administrators and an idea of the university’s future after last week’s Student Town Hall. “I am sure you will see some explosive transformation in the coming months,” President James Danko said. “There has been some quiet time during our strategic…

ALEXANDRA BODE | Staff Reporter More than 600 students from across the nation will present research at the Butler University Undergraduate Research Conference on Friday. The 26th URC is the largest in event history, with a greater than 20 percent increase in the number of presenters from last year. There will be participants from 20…

PHOTOS BY MARKO TOMICH With the calendar’s turn to April, the skies have opened up over Butler University. Heavy rain has caused problems on Butler’s sidewalks and in some of its buildings. Up to one inch of new rain could fall in the area tonight, and up to another half inch could come Friday morning…

Ryan Lovelace, The Butler Collegian’s managing editor, has earned the Investigative Reporters and Editors award for top student investigative journalism story in the nation. Lovelace received the award for his story “A Center and Its Director,” which was published on pages one, two and 12 in the Nov. 20, 2013 issue of The Collegian. The…